Int. No. 734
By Council Member Cruz (by request of the Mayor) - read and referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Labor.
A Local Law to amend the charter of the city of New York, in relation to offices held by members of the police department.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 1129 of the charter of the city of New York, as amended by vote of the electors at the general election held on November 7, 1989, is amended to read as follows:
§1129. Members of the police department; no other office. Any police commissioner or any member of the police force who shall accept any additional place of public trust or civil emolument except as a member of a community board, or who shall during his or her term of office be nominated for any office elective by the people, except a member of the police force appointed, nominated or elected to a board of education outside of the city of New York or to a board of fire commissioners established in accordance with 3-308 of the village law or section one hundred seventy-four of the town law, and shall not, within ten days succeeding same, decline the said nomination, shall be deemed thereby to have resigned his or her commission and to have vacated his or her office, and all votes cast at any election for any person holding the office of police commissioner, or within thirty days after he or she shall have resigned such office, shall be void.
§2. This local law shall be effective immediately.